John MacDonald: Time for a Christchurch super city?

Best of Business · May 13, 2022 · 5m

I’ve got that old saying about the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing in my head today.

And it’s why I think we need to seriously consider creating a Super City by merging the Christchurch, Selwyn and Waimakariri councils.

I’ve thought this for some time and I’m thinking about it again today for a couple of reasons.

The first, is the uproar in Lincoln over this new housing development - 1700 new houses.

The Carter Family is behind it. They want to increase the number of houses in the Lincoln area by more than 50 percent and chew up a huge chunk of farmland in the process.

So a…